Agamemnon Questions and Answers

Agamemnon was proud and self-centered. He didn't think about his actions..... he was impetuous, thinking of no one but himself. Murdering his own daughter was a great sin, something that his wife would never forgive. Then he publicly displayed his...

A series of complex questions arise in the wake of Agamemnon's murder. Most of them are introduced by the Chorus. We might usefully think of this as the beginning of a kind of internal interpretation. The repercussions of Clytaemestra's action...